Many of the smaller common and even not so common polygons have (Greek?) names that describe them. But if you “invent” a new polygon do you get to name it? Obviously you don’t really invent a polygon since all of them exist, but you might find a use for a particular polygon that no paid any attention to or bothered to name. Lets say you find a need for a part with 360 sides. Can this be described in classic numerical terminology? What if the sides alternate between lengths of 1 and 1.5 units? Can you call it a “double 180 duplex Schmitken” if you want?
The name of a polygon is based on the Greek ordinal for the number of sides. You could name it whatever you want but I presume the rest of the world would use the standard name for it.
Hecatohexacontahedron
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Some specific polygons have been given names by their discoverers which have seen wide use. For example, two recently discovered Einstein tiles were called the hat and the spectre by their creators, and those names have stuck. (The spectre has curved sides so isn’t strictly a polygon.)
-gon, not -hedron. But to answer the OP, if I had need of it, I would call it simply a 360-gon.
I’d agree to calling a heptadecagon a “gaussagon” instead.
I guess a Fullerene works in 3 dimensions..
A polygon with n sides can always be called an n-gon, so in that sense, every polygon has a name. But for any given number of sides, there are an infinite number of possible distinct shapes, and if you find some particular, specific shape (with specific angles and side lengths) that has some relevance to something, you can still name that specific shape.
Such a lovely name. Can you break it down? I can’t see anything that means “3”